A suspected Chinese high altitude surveillance balloon was hovering over US airspace for a few days.
Beijing:
China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that China reiterated that the unmanned civilian airplane that flew over US territory was purely an “unpredictable and isolated incident”, according to a press statement issued by the ministry.
Responding to a question about the unmanned airship, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said, “We have repeatedly clarified that the drifting of the unmanned Chinese civilian airship over the US was completely unexpected and unintentional.” It was an isolated incident.”
She also said, “China firmly rejects the distortion, hyping and political manipulation of this unexpected and isolated incident.”
The statement said that China has made it clear that the unmanned aerial vehicle is a civilian airship used for meteorological and other research purposes.
However, even after asking several times about the company to which the plane belongs, Mao does not respond.
These questions come after United States Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said that the US is still assessing the parts that were recovered from the balloon and that precautionary measures were taken to limit the intelligence value that could be obtained. Will be able to collect it.
Responding to media questions about whether the balloon was capable of sending intelligence back to China, he said the US took preventive measures to protect its own military installations from foreign intelligence collection.
“So, on the balloon itself, right now, the FBI is leading, still assessing the parts that we were able to recover from the balloon. As we mentioned earlier when we first started tracking the balloon , we do know that the balloon was “capable of maneuvering and intentionally moving along its track but not into specific sites as it was able to hover.”
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina said, “But what we did was take precautionary steps to limit the value of the intelligence that it would be able to collect and, you know, again, we — we protect our military installations from foreign intelligence collection.” Take steps to save.” Singh said during the press conference.
Speaking further, a Pentagon spokesman said that due to the immediate steps taken by the US at the time, “we were able to prevent transmission of certain aspects of our sites.”
Upon being able to broadcast and transmit back to the PRC, she said, “I don’t have any more information for you at this time. As of now, we’re still assessing exactly what intel it was that China was gathering.” was able to, but we know that the steps we’ve taken provide little additional value to what we’ve been able to collect from earlier satellites.”
The suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon was hovering over the country’s airspace for a few days before it was shot down by the US military.
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